Word: prom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only drawback to the job at present is that I'll miss the Prom she named one of Harvard's rival institutions--and they tell me it's the best party in the East. He, hum, well I guess you can't have everything...
...Harvard boys" were the undergraduate members of the Boston Skating Club, in whose Amateur Carnival Sonja used to appear frequently. "I enjoyed myself much more at the parties they took me to than I did at a Yale Prom," the ice queen added...
Princeton's Triangle Prom will take place Friday night amid a nautical setting. The "Princetonian" warns would-be crashers that two bouncers, dressed in the guise of ship's officers, "will be on deck to greet all passengers coming aboard. While one salt will be stationed at the head of the gangplank to inspect the passports of the embarking prom-goers, his cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity...
Knickerbocker Holiday (book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson: music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Co.) represents an ill-balanced musicomedy collaboration, suggests the most fleet- footed girl at a prom dancing with a corpulent middle-aged professor who has hopefully taken a few lessons from Arthur Murray. To the story of Xieuw Amsterdam in the days of peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant. the famed author of Mary of Scotland and Winter set has contributed a thick Dutch cheese of a book, while Composer Weill (Johnny Johnson) has filled Knickerbocker Holiday with gay, spirited, catchy tunes...
When a Londoner uses the word "Prom" he refers not to a college dance but to an extraordinarily popular series of concerts given every autumn at London's ugly old Queen's Hall. Unlike Covent Garden concerts, the Promenade series are not fashionable. Main reasons for the concerts' popularity are their cheapness, varied programs, unconventional atmosphere, the personality of their conductor. Highest admission charge is about $1.75, cheapest 50?. The 50?-tickets admit bearers to a large space devoid of any seats. There, an odd assortment of Londoners amble around the floor, smoke, swap opinions and amateur...